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Title: Can't get past 8 GPU's ETH
Post by: infowire on November 08, 2017, 05:51:15 PM
Windows sees the cards drivers installed fine... Freezes with claymore and newest afterburner only sees 8.

MSI Enthusiastic Gaming M5 Intel Z170A LGA 1151
Card: MSI GTX 1070


  any ideas ?


Title: Re: Can't get past 8 GPU's ETH
Post by: abaiti on November 08, 2017, 06:01:53 PM
Maybe you need reboot your windows or intall ubunty?


Title: Re: Can't get past 8 GPU's ETH
Post by: mischief on November 08, 2017, 06:26:21 PM
Make sure you are providing enough power to all of those.

Same thing happend to me so


Title: Re: Can't get past 8 GPU's ETH
Post by: infowire on November 08, 2017, 07:30:30 PM
Maybe you need reboot your windows or intall ubunty?

I will try ubuntu tomorrow.  I hear its a pain in the ass tho.

Make sure you are providing enough power to all of those.

Same thing happend to me so

Did you figure it out ? Was it just power ? I mean my afterburner don't see it only 8 of out 9. Windows see 9, Nvidia control panel see 9.... GPU-Z froze like claymores.


Title: Re: Can't get past 8 GPU's ETH
Post by: infested999 on November 08, 2017, 09:28:52 PM
you can't run more than 8 with windows. I am using 16 on linux. You can use by windows 8 amd+8nvidia but not more than 8 for the same driver


Title: Re: Can't get past 8 GPU's ETH
Post by: BitcoinDiamond on November 08, 2017, 09:50:20 PM
Z170A mobos are known to not do well with high numbers of GPUs.
Increase the ram, increase the PSU W and switch over to Linux.


Title: Re: Can't get past 8 GPU's ETH
Post by: Johny101010 on November 08, 2017, 10:34:31 PM
Try simple mining OS. Very easy to use and Linux based do it scales much better than Windows.


Title: Re: Can't get past 8 GPU's ETH
Post by: nshyamkrishna on November 09, 2017, 06:16:40 AM
Windows sees the cards drivers installed fine... Freezes with claymore and newest afterburner only sees 8.

MSI Enthusiastic Gaming M5 Intel Z170A LGA 1151
Card: MSI GTX 1070


  any ideas ?
Use Windows 10 Fall Creators update. will get more than 8 GPUs working.


Title: Re: Can't get past 8 GPU's ETH
Post by: Undefined31415 on November 09, 2017, 08:12:19 AM
As others have suggested, try your luck with your preferred Linux distribution.

Graphics drivers for Windows 10 have a cap at 8 GPUs (each AMD, and Nvidia), excluding some "mining-specific" cards.
Linux should be able to handle more, and since you didn't mention having any AMD GPUs, it shouldn't be too much of a pain. (Running GPUs with different manufacturers tends to be rather difficult on Linux.)


Title: Re: Can't get past 8 GPU's ETH
Post by: infowire on November 09, 2017, 03:12:57 PM
I am going to try the "[OS] nvOC easy-to-use Linux Nvidia Mining v0019-1.4". Just waiting on my flash drive coming in today. Has anyone used this before ?

Windows 10 can support more, http://cryptomining-blog.com/tag/13-gpu-mining-rig/ ....
Maybe the motherboard cant. CPU can do 16 lanes.